Outside Walmart

This is an original poem that was recently accepted into the spring 2025 edition of the Asbury Review.

A product of the system –

           Branded plastic bag,

                          Homeless and empty,

           Rolling by

On the asphalt.

           Yellow lines,

                          Metal monsters in neat rows –

           Commercial tumbleweed

Tossed into parking lot traffic

           By the wind –

                          The forgotten leftovers

           Of a constant exchange of

Recycled green.

           Victim of credit cards,

                          Fellow plastic waste

           That shuffles an idea

And seals its tattered fate.